Contributions are invited to an international conference which focuses onvarious aspects of adaptation into film, performance, television, radioand other media.

Adaptation â€" the reworking of a verbal text or another artefact for a newaudience in a different genre or media â€" is as old a practice as culturalproduction itself, yet its systematic study â€" adaptation studies â€" is onlya recently emerging discipline. The Cardiff School of Creative andCultural Industries with its strengths in drama, music, media andcommunication and having strong links with the creative writing unit ofthe university is the editorial home of Journal of Adaptation in Film andPerformance and is now hosting a major international and interdisciplinaryconference that will shape the formation of this neglected field ofresearch.

The event is open to scholars from as diverse, yet closely interconnectedareas as the study of film, theatre, opera, music, dance, television,radio, games and graphic narratives. Whereas some of the most recentresearch in the field focused on the connections between adaptation andappropriation, this conference also addresses analogies and differencesbetween adaptation and translation processes.

The conference embraces a plethora of perspectives characteristic of theencompassed disciplines and facilitates a negotiation between thesestances, whether they emphasise the creative or the interpretive aspect oftranslation and adaptation. Both the concepts and independent cases ofadaptation and translation will receive attention. The event will provideroom for the investigation of transformative strategies both against therespective cultural and historical settings and generic or media-basedcriteria.The conference therefore offers a range of platforms to participants,including plenaries, papers, workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions,screenings and performances so as to initiate dialogue between theoreticaland more practice-based approaches to adaptation and translation.

To inspect the inaugural issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film andPerformance please visit http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421or to order a hard copy please contact Luke Roberts:Luke_at_intellectbooks.com.